Raja Shehadeh is a writer and a lawyer who founded the Palestinian human rights organization Al-Haq, an affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists. Shehadeh is the author of several books on international law, human rights, and the Middle East including Occupiers Law and From Occupation to Interim Accords. His literary books include Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine; Occupation Diaries; A Rift in Time: Travels with my Ottoman Uncle; Language of War, Language of Peace; Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape, which won the 2008 Orwell Prize; Where the Line is Drawn: Crossing Boundaries in Occupied Palestine; and Going Home: A Walk Through Fifty Years of Occupation. His latest book is We Could Have Been Friends My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir which has been Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Nonfiction. He has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times, New York Review of Books, Granta, The Guardian, The Boston Review, and others.

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